Tony Wood, an expert in many things but especially air mass transition, or lack thereof, puts the science behind the summer in this excellent story from Sunday's paper. Tony explains why the hot weather and southerly winds have kept the ocean temps frigid. Seems like this is one of the hottest summers on record, although personally, at the shore, even without air conditioning, I've experienced worse. But those relentlessly cold ocean temps _ Saturday kind of wasn't too bad, probably mid to high 60s, but Sunday was back around 60, if that _ that is something I don't ever remember. The closest experience I've had was growing up where the Olympic sized town pool had a leak in it and was therefore always cold. In any case, Saturday was probably the best beach day in a long while, despite an extremely inauspicious beginning in which a freakishly sudden and intense thunder storm blew over the area at primetime Shore Boardwalk Getting our Exercise Hour, around 8:30 a.m. Comically chaotic attempts at shelter and rescue ensued. Joggers huddled wherever they could, and, as is the way of today, phoned their people with borrowed cell phones for pickup. No rest for those with the sense to be at home drinking coffee. It was truly a Boardwalk clearing storm. Up at the Hilton in Atlantic City, dozens of people were huddled under the awnings with their bikes and soggy sneakers. The beach blocks, meanwhile, looked like some kind of college move-in day or something, with everyone's hatchback thrown open and bikes being loaded in. Was amusing, and, really, downright collegial...I tried to snap a picture of the chaos, but pressing concerns from a 13-year-old on a bike and her running dad prevented anything but a blur. But as soon as the rain lightened up, above, joggers were back in business..